SOSC 2560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Culture Industry, Cultural Industry, Instrumental And Value Rationality

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2560
• Professor: Arash Falasiri

Document Summary

There is nothing inherent in science or in any other ideology that makes it significant role of contradictions! essentially liberating. Any discourse could turn to an ideology! Technological rationality and culture (most dominant type of rationality) 49% of canadian do not remember their parents telephone numbers, 57% haven"t memorized the number of their place of work (survey in 2016) Kind of a loss phenomenon: people are becoming increasingly unable to live in the moment, people become desensitized. Warm and cold medias (the liquidation of our imagination) ex. Technical rationality as the rationality of domination. Today"s outcome: populism and re-turn of fascism. It is the compulsive character of a society alienated from itself. Cultural industry culture of sameness: film, radio, games and magazines from a system. Films, radio and tv no longer need to present themselves as art. The truth that they are nothing but business is used as an ideology to legitimize the crash they intentionally produce .